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The imminent recovery of the American economy appeared less than certain yesterday after the latest results from the US Federal Reserve’s survey of regional economic performance.
In spite of signs in recent weeks that the US economy could be getting...
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Like public health care, Canada’s tight gun-control laws help distinguish the country from its powerful neighbor to the south. But as Canadians commemorated the 20th...
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Are European societies anti-Islam? That’s a question more people are asking in the wake of Switzerland’s referendum to ban the building of minarets in the...
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, has introduced a “good neighbours” foreign policy that has tilted the axis of Ankara’s diplomacy in...
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Girls and boys in south Sudan do not need bogeyman scare stories to make them behave: the child snatchers are real.
“They come with guns and steal our children,...
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Riot police in Greece fired tear gas canisters at youths Monday during a second day of protests commemorating a teenager shot dead by police last year, an incident that...
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Recently a major petroleum producing country located in a region recognized for anti-Americanism and fragile democracies completed negotiations on a multi-billion...
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It’s coming up on two years since Fidel Castro formally stepped down as head of state in Cuba in February 2008 and younger brother Raul Castro became...
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President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday demanded that Russia tighten its notoriously lax fire codes after the deadliest blaze since the Soviet era killed at least 107...
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President Evo Morales easily won re-election, according to unofficial results, getting an overwhelming mandate for further revolutionary change on behalf of...
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Anyone seeing the above headline would probably cringe at the accusations against one Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
But rather than react to this statement, let’s have a...
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Another day, another blast. This has become routine in Pakistan. Friday saw the death of at least 30 people in an attack in a mosque located in Chohar Chowk West ridge...
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President Obama has delivered the most important war speech of his presidency. But the surge of 30,000 of American troops along with 5000 of other allies; will it make...
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Calling it important to talk to the armed opposition, a number of political parties and civil societies in a gathering in Kabul called upon the US President to...
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It is not a matter of hearsay anymore but some well-reputed publications now speculate whether President Asif Ali Zardari will stay in the President House, or just move...
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It’s a savage irony that diarrhea is proving threatening enough for babies, belonging to the lower strata of the society, in a country which boasts of steady...
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Drunk driving is equivalent to terrorism. How a terrorist kills innocent peoples willingly, similarly the drunker kills when he drives after drinking. But in India,...
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Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru, the architect of India called the day of Independence as “Tryst of Destiny” at the midnight when our India was freed from the British i.e....
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American liberals often self-righteous state that if only the Palestinians would be non-violent more Americans would be sympathetic to their cause. In their efforts to...
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Nationalist Congress Party seems to be getting habitual of troubles thrown at it from everywhere, every now and then
Be it R. R. Patil’s idiotic statement after...
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I don’t care if it is rooted in culture or religion something has to be done about the barbaric practice of “honour killings”. There is absolutely no...
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PAUL KRUGMAN, the winner of this year’s Nobel prize in economics, put his finger on something in the 1990s when he identified, and then ridiculed, the notion that a...
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Few people probably know that the latest Nobel Prize winner for Economics, Paul Krugman, actually wrote a book on the Philippines. The most important weakness of that...
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The wonderful Paul Krugman, whose comments on the economic situation appear every week in the New York Times and are read avidly by self and friends, has just been...
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The series of financial crises in the late 1990s, such as the Asian crisis, also affected Brazil, by way of consequence. Since the crises brought about widespread...
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It is interesting to watch those Clintonites who still have their reasoning intact gradually give up the fight, though the bitterness remains. That is understandable...
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